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JUMBLES.

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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-12-01
Love Songs in Afghanistan.

Love songs are plentiful with the
Afghans, though whetner they are ac-
quainted with love is rather doubtful,
says writer in the Contemporary Re
UjcU. Woman with the Afghans is u
purchasable commodity. She is not
wooed and won with her own consent,
she is bought from her father The
average price of a young and good
looking girl is from about 800 to 500
rupees. To reform the ideas OF an
Afghan upon that matter would be a
desperate task. When Said Ahmed,
tne great Wahab leader, the prophet,
leader and king of the Yusufzai
Afghans, tried to abolish the marriage
by sale his power fell at once. He
had to flee for his life and died an out
law. There is no song in the world
so sad and dismal as that which is
sung to the bride by her friends. They
come to ngratulate-no, to console
her, like Jephtha's daughter; they go
to her, sitting in corner, and sing:
You remain sitting in corner and cry for
US.
What we do for you?
Your father has received the money"
All of love that the Afghan knows
is jealousy. All crimes are said to have
their cause in one of the three rs
Ear, zamin or zon-money, earth or
women. The third is, in fact, the
most frequent of the three causes.
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MANITOWOC, WIS. DECEMBER |, 1887.

walls. facing the audience of males,
and repeat the swaying, bowling dance
previously enacted at the cremation,
keeping time to the chant. This closes
the funeral ceremonies, which have
now lasted through four days. The
dead may be honored again in future
years by period of dancing and feast
ing, and the rebuilding of a dead
house is always season of ceremon-
ial celebration.
In olden days, upon the death of a
chief, one or more slaves were sacrificed
to attend him in the spirit world, the
bodies of the poor infortunates being
cast out upon the shore, the portion
OF the ravens cRd dogs.
The spirits of those killed in battle
or fight are believed to mount upward
with the smoke of the funeral pyre,
and when the flashing lights of the
Aurora chase each other across the
southern skies the warrior spirits are
said to be at play.
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Prairie Dogs.

There is chain of prairie-dog towns
along the Texas and Pacific road, be-
ginning west of Abilene and extending
nearly to Big Springs. The little feI-
lows always climb upon their hills and
squat on their hind feet to watch the
train go by. Hunters tell me it is al
most impossible to kill one of the dogs
and get his body, SO quickly does he
dive into his hole at the explosion of
gun. Frequently, If fatally hit, the
little borrower falls dead in his earth
domicile. Men have tried to make them
come out of their burrows by pouring
great quantities of water in at the
mouth of the hole, but they will not
emerge even at that treatment. Some
of the villages cover five acres of
ground, and | think their territory ex-
tends for one hundred miles along nv
run in Texas. So. Louis Giobe-D Demo
crQt.
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The Riches of Bolivia.

Bolivia is doubtless the richest in
minerals of any land on the globe, and
millions upon millions of precious
metals have been taken out of her
mines by the primitive process which
still exists, and must exist till rail-
roads are constructed to carry machin-
cry there. Every ounce of ore that
finds its way ont of the Andes is car
ried on the back of man or llama,
and the quartz is crushed by rolling
heavy logs upon it. By this method
Bolivia exports from twelve to fifteen
millions OF gold and silver annually,
and the output would be fabulous if
modern machinery could be taken in
to the mines. The distance from Ju-
juy to the farthest mining district of
Bolivia is seven hundred miles, and it
Is no farther to the diamond fields of
Brazil. Bolivia offers grant of
twelve square leagues of land and
forty thousand dollars mile for the
extension of the Argentine Northern
to Sucre, and English capitalists are
ready to continue, the work as soon as
the Argentine government drops it at
the boundary line. When it is built
the owners of this road will hold the
key to a country which has excited
the cupidity of adventurers since the
New World was discovered 1t has fur
nished food for four centuries of fable,
and armies of men have died in search
OF its treasures. A territory as large
as that which lies between the Mississ-
ippi River and the Rocky Mountains
remains entirely unexplored. On its
borders are the ricnest of agricultural
lands, immense tracts of timber, dia-
mond-strewn streams, and the
silver and gold deposits of Cerro de
Pasco and Potosi. What lies within
is the subject of speculation. The
tales of explorers who have attempted
to penetrate its mysteries read like the
old romances of Golconda and the Ell
Dorado of the AmaZ0ns, where the
women warriors wore armors of solid
gold; but the swamps and mountains,
the rivers that cannot be forded, and
the jungles which forbid search, the
absence of food, and the difficulty of
carrying sufficient supplies on foot,
with the other obstacles that have pre-
vented exploration, will be overcome
eventually, and the secret that has
tantalIzed the world for four centuries
will be told by ambitious scientists.
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A Blind Man on Memory.

From some open letters of peculiar
interest to the blind by one of their
number we quote the following from
the Century,: ''As partial cOmpensa-
ton, in tue midst of his many discour-
agements, the sightless pupil possesses
one vital advantage over his compan-
ions. His memory, accustomed to
seize and asSimilate definitions, and
miscellaneous information at a single
hearing, acquires both a marvellous
alertness and phenomenal rctentive
capacity which enables him to master
certain branches of study with singu-
lar ease and rapidity. Deprived of
books and without any very ready and
reliable method of making notes, he
obtains habit, often envied by the
seeing, of appropriating instanta-
neously anything addressed to his in
tellect through his hearing. Hence
the proverbially good memory of the
blind person. His mind is his memo
randum book always at hand and al
ways open.
''To the present writer, who never
remembers having lesson in anything
read over to him more than twice,
nothing is more strange and more
amusing than q room full of school
children, with fingers crammed in
their ears, buZzing over a lesson of
three pages for the fifteenth time.
Equally incOnprehensible is it to see a
man making note of a single address,
or a lady referring to a shopping list.
Such observations force one to the
conclusion that the art Of writing, in
valuable as it is, has been disastrous
to the human memory. People have
grown so to rely on piece of white
paper covered with black scratches,
that if this is lost or misplaced, they
are reduced almost to the condition of
creatures without intellect.
$50 marked is the advantage of the
blind in this respect as almost to atone
for their extra difficulties in others;
that is, the sightless pupil will acquire
scientific and philosophical studies with
a rapidity winch will counterbalance
the greater amount of time demanded
by his less facile methods of writing
out exercises in linguistic and cipher
ing in mathematical branches; so that
in taking the regular course of acad-
emy or university, he will require, all
In all, neither more time nor more
labor than the average student.
"Of no less value IN after life is this
extraordinarily trained and developed
memory. 1t enables the blind to de-
rive from lectures, conversation and
general reading ten times the benefit
of others, on whose minds single
mention OF facts and thoughts makes
little or no impression.
THUS the law of compensation is
seen working in all things, making
good on one hand, approximately at
least, what is wanting on the other;
not by the special mysterious interfer-
ence of Providence or other power
with natural conditions and processes,
for the benefit of the individual, as
many claim, but through the Inevitable
sequence of cause and effect, by which
senses and faculties become, through
unusual training, abnormally devel-
oped and their value radically en-
hanced."
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Drs. Starkey & Palen have the liberty to refer
!" the following named wcll-known persons who
have tried their treatment:
HON: WM. y. KELLEY, Member of Congress,
Philadelphia.
REV. VICTOR L. CONRAD, Editor Lutheran
Observer, PhiiGdelphia.
REV. CHARLES ". CUSHING, D. D., Roches-
HOW PENN NIXON, Editor Inter-ocean
Chicago, Ill.
REV; a,.;.S A W; IooEE, Editor The Centenary Ian
w IL, WoRTHINGro ron, Editor New South,
Birmingham. Ala.
JJDGE II. =. NBOOMAN, Quenemo. Kan
Mis- MARY A. LIVERMORE, Melrosc, Massa-
Chusetts.
JUDGE r. 5. VO pRHEEs. New Yorl, Citv.
N z. Il. 9. KNIGHT, PHILADELPHIA
m FRANK SlDDALL. Merchant. Philadctpbfa
HON. W. y. SCHUYLER. Easton Pa
EDN ARD i. WILSON, S33 Broadway N Y Ed
fhlladelph.a Photographer
Islands
ALEXANDER RTTCHIE. Inverness. Scotland.
N MRS- MAN,JE V. ORTEGA, FresnilIo, Zaca-
tecas Mexico.
MRS. EMMA COOPER, Urilla, Spanish Hsndu-
ras, Central America.
j. COBB {. S. Vice Consul. CasabIanca Morocco
NJ. Y. ASHBBOOK. Red Bluff, California.
EbN EST TURNER. Nottingham. England
dACOB WARD. BOwral, New South Wales
Ana thousands OF others in every part ofthe L s.
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After the Supper and Talk.

After the supper and taIk-after the day is
done,
A. friend from friends his final withdrawal
proDnging.
Gocd-by ard Good-by with emotional lips re-
DCatinp
$50 hard for his hands to release those hands
no more will they meet,
No more for communion of sorrow and Joy,
of cd and Young,
a iar-strctching journey awaits him TO re-
turn no more.
Stunning. pOstpOning seyerance-seeking to
ward off he last word ever so little,
= e1 at the exit door turning-chargc super
huous calling back-een as he Gesceuds
the steps.
Something To exc out minute additional
shadows of nightfal deepening,
Farewes, messages observation-disclosures the
forthgO"rs visage and form,
Soon 10 br lost for in the darkness-loth, o
so 10th 20 departl
GGTruiUus 10 tie very last
Wait Whitman, in Lippincott.
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Sunrise and Venice.

TIC East is blossominC, Yea, q rose,
Vast as the heavens. soft as kiss,
Sweet as the presence OF woman is,
kiee> and reaches. and widens and grows,
Large and luminous. up from the sea
4 nd out OF the sea, as q blossOming tree.
Richer and richer, so higher and higher,
De-per and deeper it taxes hue:
Brighter and brig hter it reaches through
TIRE space OF heaven and the place of stars,
Til ali - rich : q rose ca be.
Ana my rose-ieayes fall into pillows of fire.
Then beams reach upward as arms from the
sea;
Then !ances and arrows are aimed at me;
Then Iances, and spangles, and spars, anG
bars
Are broken, and shivered, and strewn on the
sea,
And, around and about me, tower and spire
Start from the billows like tongues of fire.
joaquin Miller.
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The Century Magazine

WITH the November, 1887, issue The
w CENTURY commences its thirty-hfth
volume with a regular circulation of al
most 250,000. The War Papers and the
Life of Lincoln increased in its monthly
edition by 100000. The latter history
having Tecounted the events of Lincoln s
early years, and given the necessary sur
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secretaries were most intimately acquaint-
ed. Under the caption
Lincoln in the War,
the writer's now enter on the more i'm
portant part of their narrative, viz: The
Early Years of the War and President
Lincoln's part therein.
Supplementary War Papers,
following the "battle series by distin-
guished generals. will describe interest
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LIBBY Prison, narratives of personal adj
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on The Grand Strategy of the War"
Kennan on Siberia.
Except the Life of Lincoln and the
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Two and half years ago family
in Plymouth gave away their pet cat
She wouldn't stay in her new home and
disappeared. The other day the
children of her old mistress found her
three miles from the town and carried
her home, where at their bidding she
did tie tricks that they had taught her
three years ago and seemed delighted
to get back, and purred steadily for
six hours.
Near East Sullivan, Me-. recently an
old farmer set spring gun for bear
that had been making too many visits
to his chicken-coops and pig-pens. and
the next morning he found bruin badly
wounded. The old man tried to kill
him with an ak, but the bear knocked
him down, and was in fair way to
kill him, when neighbor arrived with
a gun and killed the bear. The old
man was mangled.
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Marie Antoinette's famous necklace
of pearls, which went around her neck
in sixteen strings, is now for sale at the
shop of one of the principal jewelers. in
Berlin. This is the sort of necklace
that Lord BeaconsGeld was thinking OF
when he described Lothair's ''ropes Of
pearls"
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